ACTA is the “everything and a pony” Christmas wish list of the media companies. Everything down to the Internet becomes illegal. Such treaties rely
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Month: July 2008
Warm leatherette.
From 1956: the lost work of genius of car stereo. You can tell it’s genius from its independent rediscovery (check the video).
Read MoreRewired for sound.
Of course, the real alternative to the iPod is a cheap Chinese MP3 player labeled “MP4” (a blatant lie you wish the MPEG LA
Read MoreWelcome to the antisocial.
The Edsel of music players, its very name signifying miserable failure, has broken the heart of even its greatest fan.
Read MoreBut I said no, no, no … well, maybe just one.
It’s time to clean up your act when even Keith Richards suggests you may be overdoing it.
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Fool me six times, shame on my parents.
Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.
Read MoreA good heart these days is hard to buy.
The BPI’s latest wheeze is a deal with six large British ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and Sky) to send “hundreds
Read MoreNixon. Four more years!
Going by the trailer, the Watchmen movie might not actually suck. The costumes are right, the scenes are right … the sculpture on Mars
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Baby Grace (a horrid cassette).
The cassette: not quite dead!
Read MoreSlave to the Economist.
“I love The Economist. It’s like a really rational guy on crack.” They finally read The Pirate’s Dilemma (think of pirates as researching new
Read MoreThis is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
If you’re on LiveJournal, there’s now a Rocknerd syndicated feed. I’m also making regular summary posts to aus.music. I’m also trying out the Subscribe2
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Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.
A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that’s Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic. Proper
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The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the
Read MoreJamendo is not a complete waste of your ears.
As slushpiles go, the stuff on Jamendo is surprisingly not an excretory avalanche of hopelessly stunted clueless ambition devoid of talent. In the bleepy
Read MoreThat’s it, the Internet’s over. You can all go home now.
There’s cultural preservation, and then there’s the K-Tel blog. “A place for those K-Tel style classics.”
Read MoreJoin us now and free the samples.
Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t
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You can’t hide your lose forever.
You can fool much of the press quite a bit of the time, but the markets don’t care if you run baby-mulching machines —
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That’s what I’d like to know. Who listens to the radio.
The median live broadcast viewer age for the five US networks is over 50. Fox News clocks in with a median over 65. If
Read MoreYour premier domain monetization value.
The old rocknerd.org domain is now in the hands of a domain squatter. Looks like you’re now reading the real remaining Rocknerd. Hi, Ben!
Read MorePhoenix hairpins.
For those who enjoyed The Thing On The Doorstep, I give to you: Phoenix Hairpins, Capa Nostra Syndicate, Ghosts In The House, Habit Of
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